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Re: [ontolog-forum] [onion-forum] Meeting Early Warning - SOA expansion

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From: "Deborah MacPherson" <debmacp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:06:02 -0500
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Dear Ontolog Group,    (01)

Something unexpectedly came up today and I will be unable to
participate in the call in conference. I'll look at the summary and
look forward to talking some time in the future.    (02)

Sincerely,    (03)

Deborah MacPherson
Projects Director, Accuracy&Aesthetics    (04)

On 1/10/07, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Carl,
>
> When trying to leverage existing/published standards work on SOA, I
> would strongly recommend you also seriously evaluate the OASIS
> SOA-Reference Model TC work - Duane Nickull and Frank McCabe have both
> presented the work on Ontolog previously. (I'm sure you are aware of
> the resources already). This work has done a fine job defining the
> terminology and capturing the attributes & relationships among the key
> components of Service Oriented Architecture. ...  See:
>
> OASIS SOA-RM TC homepage -
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=soa-rm
>
> Duane's Ontolog Presentation (vision & early thoughts):
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_02_17
>
> Frank's Ontolog/SRI Presentation (on the adopted standard):
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2006#nidOMS
>
> I might even suggest that you arrange a meeting where both the OASIS
> and the Open Group folks can present and allow the community to
> discuss and have a Q&A about their work. ... Actually, the
> Collaborative Expedition Workshop #57 - 23-Jan-2007 at NSF (Arlington,
> VA, USA) on "Collaborative Organizing Workshop: Opening Up Networked
> Improvement Activities Around Service Oriented Architecture in 2007"
> might just provide that opportunity too.
>
> ... I'd suggest for those who are interested (in SOA especially) to
> respond to Susan Turnbull's invitation and participate at that Jan-23
> workshop (ref: 
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-01/msg00002.html)
>
> Regards.  =ppy
> --
>
>
> On 1/10/07, Carl Mattocks <carlmattocks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Meeting Early Warning - topic of our next meeting will be "SOA expansion
> > of the Business Centric Methodology ontology layer". Intent is to Leverage
> > Existing Definitions of the Open Group SOA Ontology and provide feedback
> > to its authors.
> >
> > For those who wish to share their views in a conference call.... please
> > contact me directly at carlmattocks@xxxxxxxxx with your location details
> > ... so that I can schedule the meeting at a time that facilitates your
> > participation.
> >
> > Reference Material -
> >
> > http://www.opengroup.org/projects/soa-ontology/uploads/40/12147/soa.owl
> > The Open Group is developing a formal ontology for SOA. We have now
> > reached the stage where we have a draft that we would like to share
> > with other organizations that are working on SOA, in order to obtain
> > feedback and comment. We believe that a common ontology for SOA can
> > be a very valuable resource for everyone to use, and we therefore
> > wish to receive input from as wide a constituency as possible.
> > The latestdraft is draft 0.6 and is available from our web page at
> > http://www.opengroup.org/projects/soa-ontology/ together with some
> > simple example ontologies that import it. Perhaps the best starting
> > point is the presentation at
> > http://www.opengroup.org/projects/soa-ontology/doc.tpl?gdid=12153
> > which I delivered at the recent OMG meeting. This explains the
> > ontology and how we think it will be used.
> >
> >
> >
> > <quote who="Peter P. Yim">
> > > Carl et al.,
> > >
> > > Regarding the reference to the SUMO upper ontology ...
> > > it may be more expedient, for this ONION exercise) to
> > > reference the ontology which combines SUMO, MILO, QoS
> > > and the additions for the ebXML Core Component Types --
> > > an ontology (SMQCC) that was compiled as a deliverable
> > > of the Ontolog [CCT-Representation] Project (ref:
> > > http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CctRepresentation)
> > >
> >
> > >> Leverage Existing Definitions
> > >> Whenever possible the ontological statements should leverage publically
> > >> available ontological definitions. For example -
> > >> http://www.ontologyportal.org/translations/SUMO.owl.txt
> > >> <rdfs:Class rdf:ID= "Process">
> > >> <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource ="#Physical"/>
> > >> <rdfs:comment>Intuitively, the class of things that happen
> > >> and have temporal parts or stages.  Examples include extended events
> > >> like a football match or a race, actions like Pursuing and Reading,
> > >> and biological processes. The formal definition is: anything that lasts
> > >> for a time but is not an Object.  Note that a Process may have
> > >> participants 'inside' it which are Objects, such as the players
> > >> in a football match.  In a 4D ontology, a Process is something whose
> > >> spatiotemporal extent is thought of as dividing into temporal stages
> > >> roughly perpendicular to the time-axis.</rdfs:comment>
> > >> </rdfs:Class>
> >
> > thanks for your support
> >
> > carl
> >
> > --
> > Carl Mattocks
> > Chair OASIS Business Centric Methodology TC
> > co-Chair OASIS (ISO/TS 15000) ebXMLRegistry Semantic Content SC
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